In the 17th and 18th centuries, for example, workings of the cosmos were thought of as the workings of a clock, and the building of clockwork automata was fashionable.
Language is an important part of the social world, and understanding the roles that language plays in communicating, manipulating, and controlling (to cite just a few examples) is surely vital to understanding the workings of power (See, for example, MacKinnon's views on speech in MacKinnon 1993).
However, there are still many gaps in the understanding about the workings of the RSBY, for example, not much is known about the protective effect of RSBY on OOP and impoverishment.
Perceivers only rarely receive explicit reports about another person's thoughts, feelings, or desires and must instead interpret ambiguous hints about the hidden inner workings of other minds: for example, attempting to uncover the possible significance of an eyebrow raise, sidelong glance, vocal inflection, or sudden departure.
The inner workings of a mammalian brain, for example, are nearly impossible to observe using GFP, because it's too difficult to shine a light in there.
However, Modood limits his criticism to macro-level dialogue (and presumably diversity policies), while a macro-level focus should also look at other society-wide processes, for example the workings of national welfare regimes or processes of economic (re)structuring.
Earlier attempts to explain the phenomenon of prophecy in terms of the then-accepted workings of the human psyche, for example, that of Maimonides, found analogous or proto-prophetic symptoms in two types of human inspiration.
Within the traditional Biblical cosmology, while all animals were said to have arisen through divine intentional creation, humans were the only ones created in the likeness of the deity, and thus enjoyed a special, privileged role in the intended workings of the cosmos — including, for example, access to an eternal afterlife not overpopulated with fleas, ants and snails.
We learn, for example, about the workings of the mechanical device that randomly selected, from 6,000 names, the jury of 500 Athenian citizens (yes, 500) that assembled at the law court to hear the case.
Mr. Rasmussen wants to tackle other internal workings of the organization: What to do, for example, with the plethora of committees, "300 at least," he said.
